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The Big Scare (1974) - As MacGregor
Plot Summary
- Two writers and their girlfriends visit the castle of an actor who specializes in playing vampire roles. As the night progresses, they begin to wonder if the man is an actor playing a vampire, or a vampire playing an actor. |
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The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974) - As Professor Van Helsing
Plot Summary
- Another Hammer film where Count Dracula journies to a remote Chinese village in the guise of a warlord to support six vampires who are dispirited after the loss of a seventh member of their cult. At the same time, vampire hunter Prof. Van Helsing happens to be lecturing in the country and is persuaded by villagers to help them fight this curse of the ages.
- Van Helsing tells his students of a doomed village in China that becomes cursed every year at the time of the 7th moon. He is persuaded by a family of kung fu experts to rid the village of the 7 vampires that torment them. He kills Dracula with a spear. |
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Legend of the Werewolf (1975) aka Plague of the Werewolves - As Professor Paul
Plot Summary
- A baby is brought up by wolves after they kill his parents. As a lad he is taken in by a second-rate travelling show, but one night when he is older he kills one of the troupe and runs away to Paris. Here he gets a job in a rundown zoo and falls for a girl who works in the local brothel. He resents her clients and whenever the moon is full gets extremely unpleasant about it. |
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The Ghoul (1975) aka Night of the Ghoul - As Doctor Lawrence
Plot Summary
- Doctor Lawrence is a former priest who harbors a dark and horrible secret in his attic. The locked room serves as a prison cell for his crazed, cannibalistic adult son, who acquired his savage tastes in India during his father's missionary work there. Cushing fears that his son will escape to prey upon the effete guests at his rural English estate during a cross-country auto race. |
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Space: 1999 (1976) (TV) - As Raan
Plot Summary
- Moonbase Alpha safeguards the nuclear waste shipped from Earth and carries out research. On September 13, 1999, the nuclear waste explodes and the Moon is hurled out of Earth's orbit, into deep space. The main stars were Martin Landau (Cmdr. John Koenig) and Barbara Bain (Dr. Helena Russell).
- In "Missing Link", Koenig is critically injured when his Eagle crashes and awakens to find himself transported to a city of light on the planet Zenno. Back on Alpha, Koenig's body is dying and the command structure is breaking down.
- Raan is an an alien scientist that believes Koenig to be the missing link of the loveless Zennite people. |
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Trial by Combat (1976) aka Dirty Knight's Work - As Sir Edward Gifford
Plot Summary
- A group of British aristocrats, who call themselves "Knights of Avalon", isn't content with the system of justice and executes judgment themselves. Instead of just killing the people they believe guilty, they give 'em a chance in traditional combat. When one day Sir Grifford witnesses their sessions, they have to remove him too. His son and heir, Sir John from America, starts to investigate with help from Ms. Marion and Colonel Cook from Scotland Yard. |
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At the Earth's Core (1976) - As Doctor Abner Perry
Plot Summary
- In the late nineteenth century, Professor Abner Perry is a leading scientist, and he creates a giant digging machine so he can explore beneath the surface of the Earth. He's sponsored and assissted by an old student of his, American David Innes (Doug McClure). They find a strange prehistoric landscape at the Earth's core, including Sagoths (half-human half-pig), other humans, giant lizards, flame-throwing dinosaurs, and the Meyhas (telepathic pterodactyls). The caves of Pellucidar is where the humans find and kill the Meyhas who enslaved the humans. Perry and Innes then re-enter the giant digging machine and make their way back to the surface of the Earth. |
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The Devil's Men (1976) aka Land of the Minotaur - As Baron Corofax
Plot Summary
- A satanic cult kidnaps 3 young people and Priest Donald Pleasence and Costas Skouras must save them from the hands of this evil! |
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The Great Houdini (1976) (TV) - As Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Plot Summary
- A biography of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini, examining his fascination with the occult and his promise to his wife on her deathbed that he would speak from the beyond. |
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The New Avengers (1976) (TV Series) - As Von Claus
Plot Summary
- John Steed and his new accomplices Purdey and Gambit find themselves facing new and deadly dangers in the bizarre world of espionage. Mixing fantasy with a darker edge, the trio face mutated giant rats, flocks of killer birds and fanatical mysterious monks. Later episodes find Steed's loyalty under question and an increasing number of assignments overseas.
- In the episode "The Eagle's Nest" |
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Shock Waves (1977) aka Death Corps - As SS Commander
Plot Summary
- This horror movie concerns a shipwrecked yachting party. Rose (Brooke Adams) and her fellow yacht-mates, including the captain (John Carradine) run aground on an island when they hit an odd-looking freighter. Once beached, they meet up with an aging SS Commander who had been in charge of a crew of zombies. |
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The Uncanny (1977) - As Wilbur Gray
Plot Summary
- Wilbur Gray, a horror writer stumbles on the secret that cats are supernatural creatures who are evil. In an attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur tells three tales of feline horror. In 1912 London, a wealthy woman leaves her fortune to her cats and not her nephew. Her maid, also the nephews mistress, kills the woman for her money, and her cats avenge her. 1975, in the Province of Quebec, an orphan moves in with her aunt, her husband and her cousin. They get rid of the orphans cat, so she uses witchcraft to exact revenge. In 1936, Hollywood an actor kills his wife and the wife's cat avenges her. |
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Battle Flag (1977) aka The Standard - As Major Baron von Hackenberg
Plot Summary
- In this story, an army cadet arrives to serve in Belgrade and receives orders to serve in a regiment which is accompanying a Hanoverian princess on her return to Vienna. While in Belgrade, the young man and the princess are able to meet, and they fall in love. The cadet knows that it is foolish to expect the Slavs, who have been drafted into the army, to fight very hard for an empire they would happily see dissolved, but his superior officers are oblivious to this simple fact, and as a consequence, they suffer serious military reverses. Inspired by their ancient code of military honor, the regiment's officers fight and die to preserve the regiment's battleflag, which comes into the keeping of the cadet. He is entrusted with the task of returning it to the Hapsburg royal family. |
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Son of Hitler (1978) aka Hitler's Son - As Heinrich Haussner
Plot Summary
- The leader of a right-wing German political party discovers that an illiterate woodcarver is actually the son of Adolf Hitler. He kidnaps the young man from a mental institution and prepares him to start the Fourth Reich. |
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A Touch of the Sun (1979) aka No Secrets - As Commissioner Potts
Plot Summary
- A bumbling US marine Captain is assigned to retrieve a space capsule from a despotic African ruler. |
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Arabian Adventure (1979) - As Wazir Al Wuzara
Plot Summary
- An evil magician seeks to gain power by obtaining a magic rose. A peasant boy and a prince join forces to stop him. |
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Hammer House of Horror (1980) (TV Series) - As Martin Blueck
Plot Summary
- This British anthology series, which was produced by England's leading exporters of horror films, told tales of haunted houses, demons, ghosts and other supernatural wonders.
- In the episode "The Silent Scream" a mad scientist needs human victims to experiment on, so he creates a prison with no bars. There aren't any bars because there is no escape from the prison when something far worse than they can imagine, awaits for anyone who tries to run. |
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A Tale of Two Cities (1980) (TV) - As Dr. Alexandre Manette
Plot Summary
- Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles Darnay, and remains oblivious to Carton's undimmed devotion to her. When Darnay is ensnared in the deadly web of the French Revolution and condemned to die by the guillotine, Sydney Carton concocts a dangerous plot to free the husband of the woman he loves. |
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Mystery on Monster Island (1981) aka Monster Island - As William T. Kolderup
Plot Summary
- A young European boy living in San Francisco is reluctant to marry his long-term girlfriend because he wants to travel around the world first. His wealthy uncle agrees to send him on a global expedition aboard his ship, but en route the boy and his travelling companion are shipwrecked on a remote island, populated by countless prehistoric creatures as well as gold-hunting bandits. |
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Tales of the Unexpected (1983) (TV Series) - As Von Baden
Plot Summary
- A British anthology series featuring tales of horror, mystery and suspense. Most episodes featured a twist ending, and many of them were based on short stories by well-known writer Roald Dahl, who also served as the show's host during its first two seasons.
- In the episode "The Vorpal Blade" |
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House of the Long Shadows (1983) - As Sebastian Grisbane
Plot Summary
- An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet: can he write a classic novel like "Wuthering Heights" in twenty-four hours? Upon his arrival, however, the writer discovers that the manor, thought empty, actually has several, rather odd, inhabitants. |
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Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues (1984) (TV) - As Professor Charles Copeland
Plot Summary
- Set in 1898, Cambridge, Massachusetts, depicts Annie Sullivan Macy supporting her student Helen Keller at Radcliffe College. |
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Top Secret! (1984) - As Bookstore Proprietor
Plot Summary
- This is a parody of WWII spy movies in which American rock and roll singer Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer), becomes involved in a French Resistance plot to rescue a scientist imprisoned in East Germany who is being forced to build the deadly Polaris Mine. While performing, he falls in love with the beautiful heroine, Hillary Flammond (Lucy Gutteridge).
- The Bookstore Proprietor scene was filmed completely in reverse and with subtitles just so Nick can throw books onto a tall shelf.. The proprietor is in a Swedish bookshop and is a member of the resistance that helps Nick and Hillary. |
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Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1984) - As Seneschal
Plot Summary
- Gawain was a squire in King Arthur's court when the Green Knight burst in and offered to play a game with a brave knight. No knights stand to defend their king's honor. Except for the valiant Gawain. After being quickly knighted Gawain plays the game, but learns that it's all a trick, and he has lost. But the Green Knight shows mercy, letting Gawain grow a year older before having to face the consequences. Gawain journeys across the land, learning about life, saving damsels, and solving the Green Knight's riddle. |
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Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death (1984) (TV) - As Sherlock Holmes
Plot Summary
- Sherlock Holmes has retired. But when MacDonald asks him to take on another case, he says yes. There has been some mysterious murders, and there are no visible causes for the deaths. At the same time Holmes gets this case, Graf Udo Von Felseck gives him another case: find a young and missing prince to prevent war between Germany and England. But Von Felseck is not as honest as he seems.. |
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Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986) - As Colonel William Raymond
Plot Summary
- One minute the New Yorker advertising expert Jim Ferguson is at a business party -- the next he finds himself way back in 1917 in a plane fight during World War I. Mr. Raymond explains to him that he has a time-twin, to whom he's relocated in space and time whenever one of them is in trouble. So he has to help his twin, biplane pilot Biggles, in his attempt to destroy a German super weapon, that could win their war. Of course it's hard for Jim to explain his sudden disappearances to his fiance, Debbie. |
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